{"product_id":"talking-it-over-9780679736875","title":"Talking It Over","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending\u003c\/i\u003e delivers \"fiction at its best\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) in an unforgettable novel about two best friends and the beautiful woman who comes between them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst there's Stuart, stolid, conventional, but not quite so dull as he pretends to be. Then there is Oliver, his glamorous, epigrammatic best friend. And veering wildly between them is Gillian, the cryptic beauty who marries Stuart and then astonishes everyone by falling in love with Oliver. These three are at once the protagonists and the hilariously unreliable \"eye-witnesses\" of this funny, elegant, and affecting novel by bestselling author Julian Barnes, which reimagines the romantic triangle as a weapon whose edges cut like razor blades.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in Leicester in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a collection of essays. He has won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890383683858,"sku":"9780679736875","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9554a9ba-0215-440a-bc9f-8474c46dc5c8.jpg?v=1768304990","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/talking-it-over-9780679736875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}